Last winter I read the popular parenting book Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids. I wrote a short review of it also, which you ...
Were home from our trip. Thank you for all your sweet birthday blessings for my girl in my last post. Damien somehow managed kids, home, meals and working. The house was tidy when we came home,...
Thirteen years ago today Céline was born. Céline and I are celebrating this special birthday right now, on a short trip with my mom, just the three of us. On this very special and signi...
Today Im happy to introduce you to my friend Louise Johnson. Louise lives in Maine, which is where we met. Shes an adventurous mom to four boys, ages 8 through 18 months, with another adoptive son st...
Making a variation of Heathers chai from Whole Food Kitchen has been a welcome treat on these busy May weekends. A little afternoon reprieve and pick-me-up in a hectic day. I learned the hard wa...
Im getting ready to spend three days away with my firstborn. The getting ready part is packing our house so I can be gone for a few days and still meet next weekends moving deadline. Going awa...
(Coming to you from our towns public library since our internet is still crazy unreliable at the chalet. Oh, fast internet, how I love you.) Last month I shared our craft storage solutions for small ...
Eleven sleeps till we move out the chalet. Five sleeps till Céline and I leave for a three day, two night birthday celebration with my mom. The chalet we live in is a vacation rental. Which me...
I see you mother, becoming. Gaining strength one struggle at a time. The Light shining through you. Risking in love your gifts. Beloved, chosen, beautiful. I see you child, becoming. Outgrowing your ...
Ive been talking about my mission now for the past month. In my first post I explained that part of my motivation for writing a personal mission statement was because of the work I am starting to do ...
Its started. The fiddle heads at the waters edge. The buds on the trees. The flush of green grass after all the rain. This is my happy time. These long, greening days. Watching birds descend on the f...
At the edge of the property where we live (for just a few more short weeks) is a river. One of the fairly major rivers in the region actually. This is a salmon river and the local village was built a...
This is NOT the third post I planned to publish in my writing a mission statement series. Firstly, I didn’t intend to write a series at all. It was going to be one post about my personal m...
Its Mothers Day this Sunday. Like you needed me to remind you. Or maybe you did. These things creep up on me, unnoticed. Especially this month when Mothers Day is sandwiched between our backpacking t...
We went backpacking this weekend. It was fabulous. Understand when I say fabulous I dont mean that every single moment was bliss. Backpacking is hard physical work. And when it rains (it did) its mud...
Friendship is communicated in so many ways. In this season, where I feel alone in this journey of adventure and am having to grow and stretch outside my comfort zone in so many ways, I treasure these...
Spring is usually a busy time of year for me in the garden. This year its busy for a whole bunch of different reasons. Without a garden Im in a real season of "blooming where Im planted" an...
So, so much going on this month, where to start. The school books are now closed, and were starting a two month break from our regular learning routine (all that stuff I wrote about in this curr...
Im at Simple Homeschool today talking the curriculum we used this past year during our big year of transition from interest-led elementary into the middle school years. This was just one of many tran...
As a writer, mother, cook, lover, homemaker, reader, adventurer, photographer, and everything else I do and am, I sometimes feel myself torn between three worlds. The world of my head. The world of m...
If I had been blogging when my children were babies, over a decade ago, FIMBY would be a blog about birth and midwifery care, diapers and physical exhaustion. It would be about my life with littles. ...
Damien and I move forward in our life goals through an iterative process. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, its geek speak for the cyclical process of refining an idea, with each refinement ...
I had more photos I wanted to share in my Spring is For Science post. Unfortunately, I didnt have enough space. (I try to limit myself to 8 photos per post for upload-ability and such, what a bother....
Its amazing the difference one month makes this time of year. Springs arrival on the calendar last month was still very much winter. But in one month the longer and warmer days have worked their magi...
Ever have one of those days, or weeks or months when you: Feel woefully inadequate as a homeschooler or mother? Doubt (seriously doubt) that you are up to the challenge of raising and providing an ed...
I just want to pop in briefly to say that the Simplify Your Family Life e-book sale ends in sixteen hours (or so). And one more thing. Thank you. Briennes watercolor is my thank you card. I fear beco...
This is my second post about writing a personal mission statement. In my first post - Writing A Personal Mission Statement ~ A Roadmap for the Journey - I shared my own story of why I decid...
I really pleased this morning to tell you about a collaborative project I was asked to participate in. Mandi Ehman from Life Your Way and Corey Allan at Simple Marriage have put together an e-book pa...
Like Ive shared with you before I didnt have any grand vision or plan for writing my e-book. After the door closed on a different creative project I grabbed the e-book idea and ran with it. I learned...
Spring comes late here. Some days it seems excruciatingly late. I miss flowers and green but there is the promise of new life. Soon. Ive been focusing lately on appreciating right here and now. Its a...
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